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While lost on the streets of Singapore a few months ago, we stumbled upon the Singapore Philatelic Museum. Naturally curious of all postal things, we decided to visit!

A tour of the museum provides a fresh insight of the culture and history of Singapore, not only through stamps and correspondence, but also using really interesting interactive displays. There were several exhibitions on display and one about the year of the rat in the Chinese zodiac attracted our attention.

Titled “A Rat’s tale”, it promised “insights into the lives of these commonly misunderstood creatures and discover how rats have made their way into history, literature, and even pop culture”.



We made our way through the games, and then in the middle of the room, we checked out some rat/mouse themed postcards. And as we started to read the postcards, something sounded funny… Most of them mentioned a swap, and some even had familiar names on them like Mount_rushmore, Swan, fragility, aina77 and orange_juice_drinker… Wait, these were sent by postcrossers!!

And then Paulo hit his head and said “But of course! The mouse exhibition!”

You see, about this time last year we were contacted by Mishelle at the Philatelic Museum asking help about setting up this exhibition. We had already forgotten all about it when we entered the museum, and had quite a surprise! And a lot of you participated, as the number of postcards showed:





Thank you everybody, thank you Mishelle for being so nice and setting up this exhibition!

Now, the “Year of the Ox” is approaching in the chinese calendar so… who wants to take part in the next exhibition?

Update: This exhibition is opening soon, so this activity is now closed. Thank you to everybody who sent postcards to the Singapore Philatelic Museum, pictures are coming soon :)

PS – If you celebrate Christmas, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!

20 comments so far

freshwater, United States of America

My cow card is stamped and ready to go! What fun! Thanks for letting us share in this!

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zaksmom, United States of America

I have a calf card and hope it will be okay. I enjoyed reading this article very much. Yeah, postcrossing!!

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qurainbobo, China

My mother was born in ox year.~ I will certainly send a postcard to celebrate the ox year.

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Geminiscp, Portugal

Awesome exhibition! And a great idea. I'm going to check my cow cards. ;)

P.S.: Merry Christmas to you too :)

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phisseraph, Taiwan

What a surprise to you all, and all the postcrossers :)
I just bought a set of ox-year postcards from post office couple days ago! But I no idea that whether I send them in the same themed envolope without written, or send them separately and written...

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emuster, Switzerland

My cow will travel after X-mas.

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isagv, Germany

Thank you for this article. I enjoyed reading it. :-)

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phuleshouse, Canada

I wish I knew about this sooner but I have only postcrossed the last six months. My sign is the rat. But I will be sending a card of the cow family shortly to support the exhibit.

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dandilion, Netherlands

hey a dutch cow card will be send in the newyear :-)
good article, great to see teh card showed in the museum.
and there you go, postcrossers are world wide known :-) greets, dandilion

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sunny76, Germany

Ooooooh!!!! :o
I am collecting rats/mice cards for years. Actually not only cards but nearly everything with a rat/mouse. ;)
If anyone has a rat/mouse card for me - pleeeease send me a message. :D
Great exhibition - I would love to visit it. :)

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islander61, Bahamas

Excellent idea! My younger daughter & I are both born in the Year of the Ox (are we a team of oxen?). Have to find a card with cows/oxen to send in to represent us. Seasons Greetings & Happy 2009 everybody:)!

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outsikka, Finland

I have many cow cards one of them is going to singapore after christmas :)

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Snowman, United States of America

I've got a great ox card to send! Wonderful article, too :-)

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Twanda, United States of America

How great is this, the Year of the Rat, and a wonderful article to go along with it. Postcrossing really does take you to faraway places, all from the comfort of your own home.

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zackzip, Malaysia

Cool exhibition for a cool museum~ I wished Malaysia had one like this! Am looking thru my collection and see if I can find some cards for the exhibition.

And oh, happy new year to the awesome PostCrossing team & well, Happy PostCrossing!

xoxo

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roodester, Germany

Thank you for the article! ...also collecting mice and rat cards :)

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LucyO_O, China

Wow, that's serendipity!
I'm definitely mailing an Chinese traditional ox card!

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kela79, Finland

Very nice to see so many rat & mouse cards on one place!!:)
I want to wish you a happy & successful New Year and I will send a cow card!!

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dythefly, Canada

That is super neat! Cows/ox not usually my thing when I look for cards but lo and behold, there was one in my collection. I am wondering how it got in there, but I will definately share it for the next exhbition! It all sounds pretty awesome!

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mydecemberht, United States of America

This is awesome..I am really going to try to find a cow or ox card to send them! :)

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